Two new airports to open in 2012
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
04.01.2012 08:17
Poland will see two new commercial airports, near Warsaw and in the south east, open up in 2012 to around three million passengers a year.
Airports hope to attract low-cost airline traffic
A disused military airport dating back to 1939 in Modlin, a thirty-minute commute from the capital by special train, will be open to mainly low-cost airlines in time for the Euro 2012 football championships, which begins in June.
A brand new airport will also be opening in the autumn near Lublin in the south east of the country.
Swidnik Airport Lublin “will be set at take one million passengers per year from across the Lublin region,” the company's CEO Grzegorz Muszynski has said in a statement.
Modlin aims to get two million passengers a year through its arrivals and departure lounges and will take up the slack left by the closure of the low-cost airline based 'Etude' at Warsaw's Chopin airport. (pg)